The widespread occurrence of an inverse square relation in the hierarchical distribution of subcommunities within communities (or subspecies within species) has been recently invoked as a signature of hierarchical self-organization within social and ecological systems. Here we show that, whether such systems are self-organized or not, this behavior is the consequence of the treelike classification method. Different treelike classifications (both of real and truly random systems) display a similar statistical behavior when considering the sizes of their sub-branches.
%0 Journal Article
%1 caldarelli2004widespread
%A Caldarelli, Guido
%A Cartozo, Cécile Caretta
%A De Los Rios, Paolo
%A Servedio, Vito DP
%D 2004
%I American Physical Society
%J Physical Review E
%K imported myown
%N 3
%P 035101
%T Widespread occurrence of the inverse square distribution in social sciences and taxonomy
%V 69
%X The widespread occurrence of an inverse square relation in the hierarchical distribution of subcommunities within communities (or subspecies within species) has been recently invoked as a signature of hierarchical self-organization within social and ecological systems. Here we show that, whether such systems are self-organized or not, this behavior is the consequence of the treelike classification method. Different treelike classifications (both of real and truly random systems) display a similar statistical behavior when considering the sizes of their sub-branches.
@article{caldarelli2004widespread,
abstract = {The widespread occurrence of an inverse square relation in the hierarchical distribution of subcommunities within communities (or subspecies within species) has been recently invoked as a signature of hierarchical self-organization within social and ecological systems. Here we show that, whether such systems are self-organized or not, this behavior is the consequence of the treelike classification method. Different treelike classifications (both of real and truly random systems) display a similar statistical behavior when considering the sizes of their sub-branches.},
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author = {Caldarelli, Guido and Cartozo, C{\'e}cile Caretta and De Los Rios, Paolo and Servedio, Vito DP},
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journal = {Physical Review E},
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number = 3,
pages = 035101,
publisher = {American Physical Society},
timestamp = {2017-08-17T14:15:52.000+0200},
title = {Widespread occurrence of the inverse square distribution in social sciences and taxonomy},
volume = 69,
year = 2004
}